Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: /dev/full | From | Andreas Schwab <> | Date | 23 Dec 1998 11:18:56 +0100 |
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Johnny Teveßen <j.tevessen@gmx.net> writes:
|> Quoting Charles Cazabon (charlesc-linux@hal.qcc.sk.ca): |> |> > Er, I thought the point of /dev/full was to return ENOSPACE (or whatever the |> > disk-full error code is) when you attempted to write to it...I don't think |> > you get anything from it when you try to read. |> |> Well, that's actually what I use it for: To have a "file" that gives you |> 0 bytes and then EOF when read from.
: | whatever
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